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Article: Civil War infatuation: An aura of adventure keeps us fascinated. (Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- October 20, 1993
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Two nations. One modern, industrial. One rural, agrarian.
This is the North and the South at the time of the Civil War and the United States before and after the Civil War.
Combine this sense of division _ in time, culture and geography _ with an aura of adventure, romance and nostalgia. What results is a national fascination, perhaps infatuation, with the bloodiest period of American history.
``This is the largest selling field of history books,'' said Mike Johnson, a Southern history professor at the University of California, Irvine.
It's more than books.
The highest-rated show on public television was Ken Burns' documentary, ``The Civil War.'' ...
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